Newbery Award Winners
2001-2025
2025: The First State of Being
by Erin Entrada Kelly

When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
2001-2024 Award Winners
2024: The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers
2023: Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
2022: The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
2020-2021: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
2020: New Kid by Jerry Craft
2019: Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
2018: Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Regan Barnhill
2016: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
 2015: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
 2014: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
 2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
 2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
 2011: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
 2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
 2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
 2008: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
 2007: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!  by Laura Amy Schlitz
 2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
 2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
 2004: The Tale of Despereaux  by Kate DiCamillo
 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck